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Gmina Łapy is an urban-rural
gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...
(administrative district) in
Białystok County
Białystok County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. It was created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government refo ...
,
Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship in northeastern Poland. The name of the voivodeship refers to the historical region of Podlachia (in Polish, ''Podlasie''), and significant part of its territory corresponds to th ...
, in north-eastern
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
. Its seat is the town of
Łapy
Łapy is a town in north-eastern Poland, in Białystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship; the administrative centre of the urban-rural gmina Łapy. It is situated in the North Podlasie Lowland, on the river Narew.
According to data from 31 December ...
, which lies approximately south-west of the regional capital
Białystok
Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the List of cities and towns in Poland, tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area.
Biał ...
.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 23,132 (out of which the population of Łapy amounts to 16,583, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 6,549).
Villages
Apart from the town of Łapy, Gmina Łapy contains the villages and settlements of
Bokiny,
Daniłowo Duże,
Daniłowo Małe,
Gąsówka-Oleksin,
Gąsówka-Osse,
Gąsówka-Skwarki,
Gąsówka-Somachy,
Łapy-Dębowina,
Łapy-Kołpaki,
Łapy-Korczaki,
Łapy-Łynki,
Łapy-Pluśniaki,
Łapy-Szołajdy,
Nowa Łupianka,
Płonka Kościelna
Płonka Kościelna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łapy, within Białystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Łapy and south-west of the regional capital Białystok ...
,
Płonka-Kozły,
Płonka-Matyski,
Płonka-Strumianka,
Roszki-Włodki,
Roszki-Wodźki,
Stara Gąsówka,
Stara Łupianka,
Uhowo and
Wólka Waniewska.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Łapy is bordered by the gminas of
Choroszcz
Choroszcz () is a town in north-eastern Poland, located in Białystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, seat of Gmina Choroszcz.
The Baroque palace in Choroszcz was the summer residence of the noble Branicki family, and is now part of the Museum of P ...
,
Poświętne,
Sokoły,
Suraż
Suraż is a town in north-eastern Poland situated in the Podlaskie Voivodeship, seat of Gmina Suraż in the Białystok County.
Suraż, which has a long and rich history, and was a royal town in the Kingdom of Poland, currently is one of the smal ...
and
Turośń Kościelna.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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Białystok County